LocalDeck - Quick Questions Megathread

finalbilylbong

Is anyone else getting a green flash out of some of the LED’s?

Example: Pressing button 13 makes button 7 flash green. Same result doing this with the switch for the LED in Home Assistant.

Other flash green too, depending on what button is pressed.

David

finalbilylbong Is anyone else getting a green flash out of some of the LED’s?

yes

bushbrother

finalbilylbong Yes getting this too …

stevegroom

finalbilylbong - similar. Pressing 13 caused 15 to flash green, but only four or five times and then it stopped. Nothing seen with any of the other buttons.

itsbri

Yes, getting this also. Can’t always reproduce though.

Sean

@AAllport Do you send out tracking info when you dispatch orders?
Just wondering whether you’ve gotten to my 2 orders (#8734 & #9107) yet, both destined for down under.

nuphor

Adopted the deck in HA.
I’ve popped a configuration from the configurator (minus the wifi + api blocks) into ESPHome in HA. On install, I get this error:

The number of key codes must equal the number of buttons

AAllport

Hi Everyone!
Thanks for bearing with me…

First off, we’ve just posted an update:

We’re now Shipping!

On the 4th of July, we shipped our first units to customers.
What a journey it’s been
Read More

Additionally, we’ve released configurator v0.3.

The short response to the issues that some of you have faced with broken configuration, I’m sorry.
When ESPHome 2024.6 was released with a breaking change, I rushed to get a fix out, and didn’t properly test things.
This caused us to send out code that was not yet battle-tested, so to speak, and caused a domino effect.

I’ve written a post-incident report, with instructions on how to get up and running after the 0.2 related issues.
You can read that here - LocalBytes Blog / Postes / LocalDeck Recovery

I was not able to keep up with commication, fixing software, testing, and building new deck’s and had to step away from the forum to focus on getting everything back on track.
Massive thankyou to @RebeccaH, our Community Manager, for taking this on for me!

Any comments, questions, or queries, please do let me know 🙂
It looks like we’re out of the woods for now, so, I’ll keep an eye on this thread and then catch up on the rest of the posts over the coming week!

GraemeD

I’ve set this up and tried to bind to HA scripts and automation, and nothing seems to happen. Does this only work when bound to real entities like a light per button?

AAllport

Scripts should work!
Automations may also work, but not quite how you’d expect (they’ll probably toggle the automation, as opposed to running it’s actions)

Have you allowed service calls in HomeAssistant?

GraemeD

AAllport yep as you said scripts work but the automations , run they do the on then off actions so the automation is not seen to be running

Any suggestions how to trigger automations and keep the state of them in HA so the button lights up as appropriate as i have things like turn on my lounge lights , tv and soundbar that I run as an automation

williamg97

Is there a way to factory reset the LocalDeck? I just updated my LocalDeck for the first time (using the latest configurator) and it is no longer reachable. It lights up when I plug it in though.

GraemeD

williamg97 I did the same thing, eventually I plugged it into my laptop directly via usb-c and used the ESP home wizard (https://web.esphome.io/?dashboard_wizard) to reset it and then re-adopt in Home Assistant

AAllport

GraemeD Just trying to envision how this would work…
Is this for a tv mode style scene?

What does an “off” state look like to you?

AAllport

We do have a fix!

In short, there’s enough current through the matrix to induce a little bit of fluctuation in the LED data line.
Next board rev, we’ll be adding even more spacing, but there’s also a software fix.
https://github.com/LocalBytes/localdeck-config/issues/26

ETA: Next Week!

GraemeD

AAllport

Hi so my TV is controlled via a Harmony Hub as there is no other way to control SKY Stream pucs at the moment, so my /on/off state would be the Harmony state of off or the Activity name for on. Then I have a few scenes for TV mode on for lights with more lights on and a movie mode with fewer lights on and set to blue. I suppose what I could do is set a custom HA entity with a bool for when the scene is active or turned off and get the Local Deck button state to mirror that

AAllport

It’s worth noting you don’t have to use the toggle entity for the entity binding.
Eg, you could have the light watch the state of the TV and then have an automation that listens for a press event, and then triggers the scene, etc 🙂

GraemeD

AAllport

yeah I use that for some other automatons with my LG TV’s in HA, so the TV back-lights turn on when the state of the TV changes , so could re-use that, good call

BazzUK

AAllport
Unfortunately after 2 weeks of it being received by yourself I have heard nothing, no ETA etc.
I have requested a refund on the original order as it was faulty within 30-days

Slightly unimpressed to say the least

AAllport

Ultimately, there’s only so much we can do for such a small team - we’re sorry to disappoint.

I can see that the warehouse marked the unit as received on the 16th; we then issued the replacement order and emailed you on the 17th.
The final UK shipment is leaving today and hitting the warehouse tomorrow. It should be sent out the same day (clearing all the outstanding non-EU shipments).

I appreciate that we could have done better by providing better timelines for resolving this, and we’ll be sure to take that forward in the future!

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